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Marian Cleeves Diamond, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist who studied Albert Einstein's brain and was one of the first to show that the brain can improve with enrichment and intellectual stimulation, has died. The school, where Diamond was a professor emerita of integrative biology, confirmed that Diamond...read more

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